Conference planned on writing across curriculum

KALAMAZOO -- A conference on "Using Writing to Learn Across
the Curriculum" will take place at Western Michigan University
Friday, Jan. 30.

Designed for elementary, middle and high school teachers and
college and university faculty members, the conference will run
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Bernhard Center.

The featured speaker will be Dr. Toby Fulwiler, who directs
the writing program at the University of Vermont. A former faculty
member at Michigan Technological University, he co-directed Michigan's
first National Writing Project site and is one of the originators
of the Writing Across the Curriculum movement.

Fulwiler will lead workshops from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and from
2:15 to 4 p.m. His first session, "Using Writing to Learn
Across the Curriculum," will focus on how to use writing
as a tool for learning in all content areas. His second session,
"Learning to Write Across the Curriculum," will explore
how writing and learning improve through rewriting.

Between the two sessions, conference participants will have
the opportunity to eat lunch, visit a book sale and attend one
of several concurrent workshop sessions on topics ranging from
"Constructing and Conveying Scientific Knowledge" to
"Writing to Learn in Math."

The conference registration fee is $50 and includes materials,
coffee, lunch and parking. Students may attend for $10 without
lunch and WMU faculty members may attend for free. Registration
is required for all participants by Friday, Jan. 23.

The conference is being sponsored by WMU's Office of Faculty
Development, Center for Academic Support Programs and Department
of English in cooperation with the Michigan Writing Projects.
For more information, persons should contact Dr. Ellen H. Brinkley,
WMU associate professor of English, at (616) 387-2581.